Rory Leishman: Thanks to the appalling Medical Assistance in Dying laws mandated by the Supreme Court of Canada and enacted by the Trudeau Liberals and their NDP and Bloc Quebecois allies, Canada now has both the most and the fastest increasing number of euthanasia deaths in the entire world. More Canadians are killed every year by MAID than die of stroke. Yet [...]
John Carpay: How long will Canadians continue falling for the same media tricks that they fell for during the years of lockdowns and vaccine passports? As the annual flu season approaches, Canadian media are raising the banner of fear, lifting high the torch of terror, and waiving the flag of foreboding. Media allege that we are seeing large numbers of “Covid cases” [...]
On Heroes: The Annotated Carlyle Thomas Carlyle, edited by Edward Maxwell III (Imperium Press, $11 pb, 332 pages) Thomas Carlyle was a 19th century historian, philosopher, and social critic best known for his Great Man Theory of History which argues that history is shaped by exceptional individuals who take command of events. The argument was first made in his lecture “On Heroes,” [...]
Why pro-lifers are like pinch-hitters Donald DeMarco: Four days after I was born, Clarence McKay “Ace” Parker made his debut with the Philadelphia Phillies. This tidbit of information concerning two entirely unconnected events is of no importance to anyone except to me. It gives me a personal tie-in to him, though a rather thin one. But I will honor it and also [...]
Paul Tuns, Review: Life in the Negative World: Confronting Challenges in an Anti-Christian Culture by Aaron Renn (Zondervan, $33.50, 247 pages) Aaron Renn is a fellow at American Reformer and former research fellow at the right-of-centre Manhattan Institute for Public Policy. You might be familiar with his work if you are regularly reader of First Things, his subscription newsletter or his Substack. His [...]
Paul Tuns: Ahead of the New Brunswick general election officially called on Sept. 17, Campaign Life Coalition distributed thousands of postcards with information about transgender indoctrination in schools. This raised the ire of politicians opposed to Premier Blaine Higgs’s policies requiring parental consent to use names and pronouns at odds with a student’s biological sex. CLC distributed postcards to households in August [...]
Interim writer, Josie Luetke, Talk Turkey Josie Luetke: Linda Gibbons and Mary Wagner have long been personal heroines of mine. When I was still just a high school student I was personally challenged by their witness and seriously wrestled with the dilemma of whether I—and the rest of the pro-life movement—should be so committed to the defense of the pre-born [...]
Media blames pro-life laws for tragic deaths of women Oswald Clark: Amber Thurman, left, and Candi Miller, right, died after taking the abortion pill. Pro-abortion activists are claiming the two mothers died because of Georgia’s pro-life law that bans abortion once a heartbeat is detectable at six weeks. A pair of Georgia residents, Amber Nicole Thurman and Candi Miller, are [...]
Oswald Clark: West Virginia could outlaw euthanasia Voters in ten states will decide the fate of abortion laws after abortion advocates organized to get referenda on the issue on the ballot. The ten states are Arizona, Colorado, Florida, Maryland, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New York, and South Dakota. In Maryland and New York, the legislature voted to put the constitutional amendment on [...]
Candidates tackle abortion at debate On Sept. 10, Vice President Kamala Harris (D) and former president Donald Trump (R) took part in a debate moderated by ABC News in which the two sparred over abortion in the second question posed by the hosts. Harris vowed to sign a bill reinstating Roe v. Wade which would nullify state laws protecting preborn children from [...]
Paul Tuns: Cardus, an Ottawa and Hamilton-based Christian think tank, released a pair of studies in September exploring the scope and impact of sports betting, and calling for tighter regulations of the online sports-betting market. In “Hidden Harms of Single-Event Sports Betting in Ontario,” author Johanna Lewis found that the average net monthly spending per sports betting account is $283, the equivalent [...]
Paul Tuns: The C.D. Howe Institute, a right-of-centre economic think tank based in Toronto, published a study that warns that lower fertility rates and rapid aging “creates challenges for public finances.” The study, “Another Day Older and Deeper in Debt: The Fiscal Implications of Demographic Change for Ottawa and the Provinces,” by William B.P. Robson and Parisa Mahboubi, warn that the inverted [...]
Interim Staff: On Sept. 24, Pastor Derek Reimer was acquitted of charges related to his drag queen story time protest in Calgary. Reimer, pastor of Mission 7 Ministries, was charged with causing a disturbance and mischief for protesting the “Reading with Royalty” event marketed for children at the Seton Public Library in February 2023. He was removed from the premises by police. [...]
Almost immediately upon becoming the Democratic candidate for president, Kamala Harris started attacking her Republican opponents, Donald Trump and JD Vance, as weird. To emphasize the difference between the Democratic ticket’s ostensible normalness and the Republicans’ alleged weirdness, she picked the mostly non-descript Minnesota Governor Tim Walz, a former high school football coach. No sooner had Harris delivered the broadside that “weird” [...]
Every four years, the cyclical rituals of American democracy impose the ordeal of an “election year” not only upon its own populace, but on the entire globe. At such times, stances on a range of geopolitical issues hang in the balance—positions which, in turn, promise to set the general tenor of international diplomacy and public discourse for years to come. The 2024 [...]